but I did not believe myself ready for that kind of responsibility until I was in college.
Again, Anecdote is an Anecdote. Just because you did not feel ready does not mean others did not. I could give you a few dozen anecdotes that run contrary to your own anecdote.
The majority of Humans were having kids at the age of 18-16 not too long ago. Just because you imposed some silly obfuscation to the issue does not make it so.
I think a lot of the sexual repression is due to society reacting to prevent the spread of STDs and such.
In a society were people are likely to only have sex with one partner, the spread of STDs is constrained. But then again, that's my own theory, I have no idea.
Many of them didn't have sex again for several years after breaking up with their first partner because they didn't feel they could handle it yet (my wife incuded).
Anecdote is an Anecdote and I have dozens of my own to refute this claim.
Some girls are just born horny.
Ehrm, I take that back, all girls are born horny except for a few freaks.
Huh? Since 5th grade I was walking to school by myself... Once High school started I was taking public transportation to get to high school 4 miles away!
First things first, you can give facebook the option to go into your email accounts to get your contacts, that's one method of getting the "People who you know" list out. Also, facebook bases the "People who you know" based off of your friends friends, highschool, college, etc. It's not magic science and they sure ain't the CIA.
You don't realize what that was for? Some programs were designed for the 33mhz processor and were timed for it. By running a 66mhz processor, your program would run 2x as fast which in some cases was undesirable. Hence the Turbo button.
Currently I am doing most of my stuff on a five-year-old iBook. The lowest end at the time. Will last for another couple years.
Lucky you, my 700mhz G3 ibook died about 4 times before I decided to not spend any more money fixing it. But then again, my ibook would be about 7 years old now, however if it didn't die I would probably still be using it today.
We're not living in the early 90s any more where there was a big difference. It matters if you have a 386DX33 or a 486DX2-66 from a few years later. It doesn't really matter if you have a 1 GHz single core or 3 GHz quad core. You're not typing any faster on it. Your movies don't play faster on it, both will happily play full HD. Web sites won't load faster (javascript may make a difference but that's mainly a software issue), your net connection is the bottleneck.
Yep, that's why my latest portable is a 1.6ghz Atom processor with an Nvidia ION, cost me a whole $450(Ram upgraded to 2gb) For browsing the web, typing up reports, or watching HD Video it's perfect.
My home desktop on the other hand is a fully maxed out 4ghz quad core computer with 6gb of ram, 2TB of HD space, top end graphics card, 1000W PSU, etc. But that's because I do CAD/CAM/CAE work on my desktop and prefer as fast of a cpu as possible. At my job I have a similar setup since on my previous 3.4ghz P4 I was spending up to half of my day waiting for the computer to do processing work. Not to mention HD gaming on my home computer. Some people actually do need all of that power!
I'm not a gamer, and I don't have HD video. My desk is too small for a monitor over 17". I am considering upgrading my 15" monitor but on the other hand it does the job.
Like I said above, I do a lot of engineering work on my desktop, I've actually moved to a 28" Monitor and I now find working on anything less to be very very restricting. For web browsing or writing reports it doesn't really matter.
Great, but I do live in a metropolitan area, if not the largest metropolitan area in the United States and the fastest service I can get is 50/5 for $99/month. It's nice and I do have it, but it's too expensive for the price compared to what's available in other countries.
What are you waiting for? The new Intel processors already have integrated on-die GPUs. The next generation will have the GPU and the CPU completely integrated.
Yes GPUs are very different, they are designed to do a lot of very similiar calculations to an extremely large set of vector data. That's also pretty much all they do, they aren't nearly as good for logic like a traditional CPU is.
Yes, except the entire purpose of a corporation is to turn a profit, social welfare be damned. If hooking up Internet to those 10 people living away from society isn't going to turn us a profit, then we'll be damned if we're going to hook them up! The Federal Government on the other hand has more at stake with regards to the welfare of society and making sure that interstate commerce is working smoothly.
There are certain jobs that only the government can do well, and there are many others that the government should have absolutely no role in. The problem with government spending is that everything goes by a middle of the road scenario when it comes to cost estimation, however these kinds of large scale projects always become more complicated then it initially seems and costs rise.
Yes, a benevolent dictatorship is probably the best form of government, if one can find a benevolent dictator who is not swayed by the fleeting passions of the public. That's a big if however and not something one can rely on for centuries, so we deal with what we have and what works.
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Again, Anecdote is an Anecdote. Just because you did not feel ready does not mean others did not. I could give you a few dozen anecdotes that run contrary to your own anecdote.
The majority of Humans were having kids at the age of 18-16 not too long ago. Just because you imposed some silly obfuscation to the issue does not make it so.
I think a lot of the sexual repression is due to society reacting to prevent the spread of STDs and such.
In a society were people are likely to only have sex with one partner, the spread of STDs is constrained. But then again, that's my own theory, I have no idea.
Anecdote is an Anecdote and I have dozens of my own to refute this claim.
Some girls are just born horny.
Ehrm, I take that back, all girls are born horny except for a few freaks.
Huh? Since 5th grade I was walking to school by myself... Once High school started I was taking public transportation to get to high school 4 miles away!
You pay $6400/year for insurance? Damn, either you're getting ripped off, or you have some chronic condition.
She doesn't need to, a lot of the information comes from her friends.
Silly Europeans, 100 miles is a pretty short drive.
First things first, you can give facebook the option to go into your email accounts to get your contacts, that's one method of getting the "People who you know" list out. Also, facebook bases the "People who you know" based off of your friends friends, highschool, college, etc. It's not magic science and they sure ain't the CIA.
You don't realize what that was for? Some programs were designed for the 33mhz processor and were timed for it. By running a 66mhz processor, your program would run 2x as fast which in some cases was undesirable. Hence the Turbo button.
Why would you have 4gb of ram on an i7 920? 3gb, 6gb or 12gb for triple channel...
Lucky you, my 700mhz G3 ibook died about 4 times before I decided to not spend any more money fixing it. But then again, my ibook would be about 7 years old now, however if it didn't die I would probably still be using it today.
Yep, that's why my latest portable is a 1.6ghz Atom processor with an Nvidia ION, cost me a whole $450(Ram upgraded to 2gb) For browsing the web, typing up reports, or watching HD Video it's perfect.
My home desktop on the other hand is a fully maxed out 4ghz quad core computer with 6gb of ram, 2TB of HD space, top end graphics card, 1000W PSU, etc. But that's because I do CAD/CAM/CAE work on my desktop and prefer as fast of a cpu as possible. At my job I have a similar setup since on my previous 3.4ghz P4 I was spending up to half of my day waiting for the computer to do processing work. Not to mention HD gaming on my home computer. Some people actually do need all of that power!
Like I said above, I do a lot of engineering work on my desktop, I've actually moved to a 28" Monitor and I now find working on anything less to be very very restricting. For web browsing or writing reports it doesn't really matter.
Achievement Unlocked: Class passed.
But the dialog is the good stuff?
Regardless, your point is moot since in dragon age you could enable subtitles and skip dialog quickly.
So are you one of those people that mutes his TV while reading close captions when watching TV shows?
Dragon Age Origin was all voice acted, and it was amazingly well done.
Reading text on a screen tends to kill your immersion, I guess that would be one of the big reasons for voice acting.
Great, but I do live in a metropolitan area, if not the largest metropolitan area in the United States and the fastest service I can get is 50/5 for $99/month. It's nice and I do have it, but it's too expensive for the price compared to what's available in other countries.
What are you waiting for? The new Intel processors already have integrated on-die GPUs. The next generation will have the GPU and the CPU completely integrated.
Good thing too, because the USA is a federal republic.
They sure did, by becoming capitalists themselves.
Yes GPUs are very different, they are designed to do a lot of very similiar calculations to an extremely large set of vector data. That's also pretty much all they do, they aren't nearly as good for logic like a traditional CPU is.
Yes, except the entire purpose of a corporation is to turn a profit, social welfare be damned. If hooking up Internet to those 10 people living away from society isn't going to turn us a profit, then we'll be damned if we're going to hook them up! The Federal Government on the other hand has more at stake with regards to the welfare of society and making sure that interstate commerce is working smoothly.
There are certain jobs that only the government can do well, and there are many others that the government should have absolutely no role in. The problem with government spending is that everything goes by a middle of the road scenario when it comes to cost estimation, however these kinds of large scale projects always become more complicated then it initially seems and costs rise.
Yes, a benevolent dictatorship is probably the best form of government, if one can find a benevolent dictator who is not swayed by the fleeting passions of the public. That's a big if however and not something one can rely on for centuries, so we deal with what we have and what works.
Which ideology would you have rather won? The Nazis? The Communists?
Halve the costs? The majority of costs are in setting up the railways themselves of which labor is most definitely the percentage of the cost.
Really? The rest of the world sees the USA as
I somehow find that hard to believe.